Tornadoes

The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued a tornado watch for Tuscaloosa County and many of the surrounding areas as severe weather moves into the state on Tuesday evening. The tornado watch is in effect until 10PM tonight with the strongest weather entering West Alabama after dark...

We all know about the tornadoes that tore through several states last weekend. As it turns out, tornadoes made their presence felt overseas, as well.

This was the backdrop for Thursday night's Double-A game between the Frisco Roughriders and the NW Arkansas Naturals. As you can imagine, officials cancelled the game shortly after this picture was taken.

A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground with the most violent producing massive destruction with wind speeds of 250 mph or more. Some damage paths can be as large as creating paths of 50 miles wide...